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Application filed May 24, 1888. Serial No. 274,980. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH W. HERINGS- HAUSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at N ew York, in the county and State of New York, haveinvent-ed new and useful Improvements in Sofas, oli' which the lfollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvementin sofas by which a head-rest can be conveniently placed at varying angles, as set forth in the following' specilication` and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is a lront View ol asofa. Fig. is a longitudinal sectional view with parts in a dilit'erent position. Fig. 3 is asection in the plane :Lun Fig. l; and Fig. 4, a detail sectional view of the movable back-section and its depending extension.

Similar letters in dicale correspondingparts.

ln the drawings, the letter A indicates a seat-frame, and B is a back. The foot-section C is shown movable about a pin or support, I). lVlien the hook Eis released, the footsection C can be swung to the position shown in Fig. 2.

The head piece or section F is shown movable about pivot-pins (l, mounted in liXed parts G ot' the trame. Saidhead-seetion has a back-section, ll, forming a continuation of the back l, and provided with an extension, I, which depends downward through a longitudinal recess or slot,I, at the rear of the sofa-seat, and has the extremity toward the foot-section termed into a segmental projecting edge, which lits a corresponding segmental cavity formed in the adjacent edge of the rigid back l. The extension I is rigidly secured lo the inside ol' the back-section. ll, as seen in Fig. l, and projects laterally therelrom, so that it is brought toward the sofaseat and can run in the recess or slot in the seat-frame, while at the same time its inner face is vflush, or substantially so, with the inner faces ot' the back-sections 1I and li, in such manner that even when the head and back sections F and H are tilted to their extreme positions, asin Fig. 2, there will be no gap between the head-section H and back B; but, on the contrary, the continuity ol the entire back is preserved. The extension I is firmly guided and steadied by the seat-frame. In Fig. 3 is indicated the relative positions of the seat-frame A and the extension I, and the said extension is shown by dotted lines as passing through the recess or slot I in the seat-frame. By attaching the extension I to the inside olf the back-section, so that the eX- tension projects laterally inward toward the sofa-seat, there is provided space whereby the section H and back B can be upholstered, so that the npholstering will be substantially flush with the inner surface of the extension I. The extension need not necessarily be upholstered, but it may be covered with cloth, if desired. The width of the slot or recess I is obviously sulliciently wide relatively to the thickness ot the extension I as Ato permit the latter to freely move. Then the head-section is swung to the position shown in Fig. 2, the extension I will prevent the continuityof the back from being broken, so that when said head-section is placed at varying angles the back ot the sofa will always be closed or unbroken.

The teeth I( are adapted to be engaged by a catclnL, and by causing said catch to engage one or another of the teeth K the headsection will come to rest at various angles, as desired. A button or head, M, enables the catch Ii to be thrown outot' engagement with the teeth K, anda spring, N, holds said catch in engagement with a tooth, K.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A sofa consisting ot the seat A, having a longitudinal slot or recess, I', at its head, a seta-back, B, Vprovided with a segmental cavity in its edge nearest the sofa-head, and an adjustable pivoted head, F, having a rigid backpieee, ll, provided at its base with an extension, I, ot'tset at the 'front of said rigid backpiece to be substantially flush with the upholstering thereupon depending downward through. the longitudinal slot or recess in the sofa-seat, and having a segmental projecting edge fitting the segmental cavity in the adjacent edge oli' the sofa-back, substantially as described.

2. A sofa consisting ol? the seat A, having a IOO sofa-beek, B, and n longitudinal Slot or recess, I In testimony whereof I have hereunto set Io I', near its head, and a pivotecl head, F, havmy hand and Seal in the presence of. two Sub ing a` rigid back-piece, H, and an extension, I, Serihing Witnesses.

oiset in front of saifl rigid back-piece to be 5 Substantially flush with the upholstering Thereupon and dependingl downwardthrough The lon gitudimll sloi` or recess in the Sofa-seni; AVftnesSeS:

when thepivolzed hem] i s swung back, SuhslnnlV. (I. IIAUFF,

izially as described. E. F. KAS'PENHUBER.

F. lV. HERINGSHAITHEN. 

